Well it’s been another six months since the last update on the Twilight Zone-esque winning streak of Burns Lake, BC in the BC 50/50 lottery, and it’s time for another look in.
I am writing this a week and a bit late because when I was at a recent wedding – our oldest daughter’s – I was talking to some people who were going to Burns Lake. I was hoping they would do a little journalism for me and ask around about the 50/50, maybe visit the black hole of BC lottery, the Burns Lake Husky station. It turns out they weren’t interested in the job. They only wanted to do fun stuff with their family. How selfish! Anyways, I know nothing more about the crazy winnings there than I did before.
2107 started out with 7 50/50 wins for Burns Lake in January, netting the town $21,372.50.
February was an atypically slow month with only 3 wins for $7,066.50 – although 3 wins in 112 draw is still about 60 times more than they should win based solely on population.
March was back on track with 4 wins for $18,542.50, including a $12,192 win.
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April was the best month of the year so far, 9 wins for $23,030.
In May they won 3 draws but only won $7,430.
June picked up a little with 4 wins and $9,255.50.
Grand total for six months: 30 wins, $86,697.
I don’t think there’s anything crooked going on, although I have been made aware of certain people writing the BC Lottery Corporation to complain about this little village of 2,000 winning around 100 times more often than their population would suggest they should. Each time someone wins over $10,000 the BCLC photographs the winner for its website. So far, no picture of the winner of the $12,192 from March has been pictured. Either that prize hasn’t been claimed yet, or the winner avoided getting photographed. I was hoping to see if it was the same man and woman who won during last November’s Grey Cup, but I guess I’ll have to wait. As for complaining, I won’t. If it turns out to be the same couple (or friends or whatever), I say good on you! Maybe when the province isn’t quite as on fire as it is right now I’ll drive up and do my own journalism.
I also did the math and contacted BCLC about disproportionate 50/50 wins in Burns Lake. They have no explanation other than to say a lot of tickets are sold there. Another jackpot over $4,000 was won yesterday March 23, 2018. These skewed numbers of wins indicate that “he who spends the most wins,” and the rest of the fools who buy tickets have no chance. It’s an unfair system and the lottery does not care. They’re happy to get our money, one way or another.
If they’re buying 8% of the tickets and winning 8% of the draws, then nothing unfair is going on. It’s just for such a small town there must be a line up at the gas station every day to buy tickets. In a lot of months they out-win Vancouver! I’d love to visit the place to get an idea of the volume of sales.
I suspect it’s one person, who won $9,380.00 again last Friday, Goes for the big jackpots on Friday and Saturday. When you win that frequently, it’s easy to come up with $200 or $300-dollar buy-ins per draw. I think it’s an interesting story, so I sent it to Global media. I doubt they will air the story since they get so much ad revenue from the lottery BCLC.
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Congratulations on your CBC News story Brian. Well done!
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I think the Burns Lake winner moved to Pemberton.
Yes, that’s what it looks like!
Very descriptive blog, I enjoyed that bit. Will there be a part 2?
Is that comment referring to the Burns Lake story? I wrote several times about their crazy winning streak. Thanks for the feedback!
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